Past Exhibitions

Our archive of exhibitions previously viewed at the Frist Art Museum.

October 1, 2001
– January 13, 2002
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The second exhibition in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery featured works by New York artist Petah Coyne. Coyne is internationally renowned for her complex wall, floor and ceiling sculptures made of such delicate materials as wax and horsehair.
Fairy Tales was organized by the Frist...

July 21, 2001
– September 9, 2001
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This exhibition offered a selection of works created by Nashville youth in response to the different artistic influences seen in the exhibition Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The abstract paintings created by preschool children relate to the simple...

July 21, 2001
– September 9, 2001
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The exhibition showed radical transformations of American art in the 20th century by artists including Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis and Franz Kline.
Modernism & Abstraction is one of eight exhibitions in Treasures to Go, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum , touring the...

April 8, 2001
– July 8, 2001
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Featured approximately 95 works surveying nearly 600 years of painting by some of Europe’s greatest masters, including Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Monet, Degas and Picasso. European Masterworks was on exhibition on the Frist Art Museum’s opening day, April 8, 2001.

April 8, 2001
– August 19, 2001
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The installation of a sculptural tableau in the Contemporary Artists Project Gallery provided humorous commentary on secrecy and the exercise of power by people in positions of authority. Nashville artist Michael Aurbach is known for consummately crafted and thought-provoking sculptures, which have been exhibited widely throughout...

April 8, 2001
– March 10, 2002
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An Enduring Legacy: Art of the Americas from Nashville Collections was one of the exhibitions on view when the Frist Art Museum first opened its doors on April 8, 2001. The exhibition presented 145 works of painting, sculpture, photography, furniture and decorative arts...

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Frist Art Museum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit art exhibition center dedicated to presenting and originating high-quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. The Frist Art Museum offers the finest visual art from local, regional, national, and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions that inspire people through art to look at their world in new ways.